Biblical scholarship in Louvain in the 'golden' sixteenth century / Antonio Gerace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerace, Antonio, author.

Series:

Refo500 academic studies ; v. 60.

Refo500 Academic Studies ; volume 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Université de Louvain (1425-1797). Faculté de théologie--History--16th century.

Université de Louvain (1425-1797).

Université de Louvain (1425-1797). Faculté de théologie.

Theology--Study and teaching--Belgium--Louvain--16th century.

Theology.

Theology--Belgium--History--16th century.

Biblical scholars--Belgium.

Biblical scholars.

Jansenius, Cornelius, 1510-1576.

Jansenius, Cornelius.

Lucas, Franciscus, 1549?-1619.

Lucas, Franciscus.

Stapleton, Thomas, 1535-1598.

Stapleton, Thomas.

Theology--Study and teaching.

History.

Belgium.

Belgium--Louvain.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

296 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Gottingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, [2019]

Summary:

"Antonio Gerace's book deals with the "Golden Age of Catholic Biblical Scholarship" in the Sixteenth Century southern Low Countries, a Catholic "wedge" between the Calvinist rebels in the Netherlands, the Lutherans in the Holy Roman Empire, the Anglicans in England and the Huguenots in France. Because of that, Catholics in the Low Countries particularly felt the necessity of both a thorough study of the Scriptures and their sound preaching, as ways to counter their many opponents. In particular, the book analyses seven authors - Nicholas Tacitus Zegers, John Henten, Cornelius Jansenius 'of Ghent', Adam Sasbout, John Hessels, Thomas Stapleton, and Francis Lucas 'of Bruges' - who offered key-contributions that can effectively show the development of biblical scholarship into three main thematic areas: 1) Text-criticism of the Latin Vulgate; 2) Exegesis of the Scriptures; and 3) Preaching of the Bible." -- Publisher, page four of cover.

Contents:

Introduction. The historiographical category of "Golden age of Catholic Biblical scholarship" ; The "Golden age" : roots and growth ; Biblical studies in Louvain and its alumni : humanism, confessional strife and war

Louvain and the "Authentic" text of the Vulgate. Nicholas Tacitus Zegers and his text-criticism of the New Testament ; Textual criticism of the Vulgate before and after the Sixto-Clementine (1592) ; Lucas' first period: 1574-1592 ; Lucas' second period: 1592-1603 ; Lucas' third period 1603-1618 ; The case of Gen 3:15 in Henten, Lucas and Sasbout ; Conclusion : The Nachleben of Henten, Zegers, and Lucas

The exegesis of the Vulgate in Louvain and its alumni. Introduction : predestination, grace, and human free will in Christianity ; Franciscans and the doctrine of double justice ; Double justice and double justification amongst Catholic theologians ; Albert Pighius and double justice ; Gropper's view: both double justice and double justification ; The answer of the Louvain Faculty of Theology: Ruard Tapper and the 32 Articles ; Seripando: the promoter of the double justice doctrine at the Council ; Zegers' Scholion and double justice between Driedo, Gropper and Augustine ; Sasbout: the pupil follows the master ; Iustitia imputata as remissio peccatorum and iustitia inhaerens as renovatio animi? ; Jansenius: Biblical humanism and Augustinian-minded exegesis ; Jansenius: from Hulst to Ghent ; Jansenius' theology of grace in the commentary to his Concordia ; John Hessels the "anti-Pelagian" ; Stapleton's "Antidote" to John Calvin: Luis de Molina's "middle knowledge" ; Short biography ; A Revealing title ; Matt 11:21: Chorazin and Bethsaida ; Matt 11:21: God's omniscience and human free will ; Lucas' commentaries and the controversy on predestination, grace and free will ; The aim ; The methodology ; Predestination, grace and human free will ; Eternal election, temporal vocation and human free will ; Eternal predestination, God's adjuvant grace and good works: three causes of human salvation ; The third cause: bona opera as fulfilment of God's will ; The problem of sin: God's foreknowledge and human free will ; Conclusion: Louvain between anti-Pelagianism and Molinism

Preaching the Bible in the Habsburg Spanish Netherlands . Sasbout: Salvari possumus si volumus ; The edition of Jansenius' Sermons by George Braun ; Stapleton and the education of the preachers ; Preaching against the Queen on the 19th Sunday after Pentecost ; The Mass on Septuagesima Sunday: again against the Queen? ; Stapleton's Sermon on the Protomartyr and Luis de Molina ; Lucas' sermons to Bruges' citizens ; Conclusion.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's dissertation, KU Leuven, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-288) and index.

ISBN:

9783525593783

3525593783

OCLC:

1111736161